From Language Skills to Literacy: Broadening the Scope of English Language Education Through Media Literacy

ISBN-13: 9780367583408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 180 str.

Csilla Weninger

Opis

Using Singapore English language teaching as a case study, this book illustrates how media literacy principles were vernacularized to design English classroom pedagogies that stretched the bounds of what is acceptable and possible in the local context.

Spis treści

List of figures

List of tables

List of appendices

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: English language and literacy education: A historical overview

Chapter 3: Media literacy: Key ideas and connections to English literacy education

Chapter 4: Challenges to a literacy approach to teaching English

Chapter 5: Bridging theory, curriculum and pedagogy: Developing a framework for media literacy through English

Chapter 6: A contextual look at the media literacy dimensions in pedagogic practice

Chapter 7: Developing and implementing the media literacy unit in Eastridge Secondary School

Chapter 8: The question of authenticity: Students’ experiences with school media/literacy education

Chapter 9: Conclusion

Appendix

Index

O autorze

Csilla Weninger is associate professor in the department of English Language and Literature at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Her research examines the imprint and impact of political and institutional ideologies on the conduct of schooling, including its material dimensions such as textbooks as well as everyday pedagogies. Her publications have appeared, among others, in Teaching and Teacher Education, Discourse, TESOL Quarterly, Linguistics and Education, and ELT Journal.